CAN OTTAWA RESIST THE GREAT RESET?

So how is everybody enjoying the first blush of the new normal, the beginning of the post- COVID-19 transformation of the global economy — the Great Reset — that will lift the world out of the economic and social hell we were all living through during the pre-pandemic era, way back in the dark years of 2000 or 2010 and even 2019? In the words of John Kerry, U. S. president- elect Joe Biden’s climate change adviser, the world “cannot think of reset as pushing a button and going back to the way things were … We’re a long way off from being able to go back to any kind of normal. And the normal was a crisis, the normal was itself not working.”

According to Kerry, since the world was in collapse prior to COVID — climate, environment, inequality, poverty, shareholderism — governments everywhere, including the United States and Canada, must use this pandemic as an opportunity to reset global economic structures and take the world toward a new and better normal, starting with hard policies to reduce all carbon emissions down to zero by 2050.

During a World Economic Forum ( WEF) panel discussion a few days before his appointment, Kerry promoted the WEF’S Great Reset movement as “more important than ever before.” On the day Biden is sworn in, the U. S. will rejoin the Paris Agreement on carbon emissions and push to expand its scope at the next meeting of the UN climate powercrats in Glasgow next November. “It’s not enough to reform Paris,” he said. “We have to move faster.”

The vehicle for moving faster is a radical reform of the purpose and governance structures of the world’s corporations. Governments can’t really do much, said Kerry, but they can “create a structure to make it possible for things to happen in the private sector” via a legal transmission system that will involve turning the global corporate private sector into political institutions rather than private shareholder institutions. It’s a case of “stakeholder versus shareholder,” said Kerry.

The plan is to transform the world’s corporations in

SOME SAY THE TRUDEAU LIBERALS DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT STUFF TO JOIN THE COVID GLOBALIST REFORM MOVEMENT. REALLY?

to power tools of government policy by installing political and ideological objectives — to carry out climate policy, social policy and install “sustainable development” on a global scale. Kerry, experiencing a couple of Biden moments during his WEF panel performance, referred to the need to “achieve net neutrality” in climate targets when what he meant was “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050.

Some say all this Great Reset talk is nothing for Canadians to worry about. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberals don’t have the required radical commitment to be part of such globalist thinking. By occasionally echoing the reset jargon, the Trudeau government is said to be “mostly” blowing political hot air.

The implication of this analysis is that Trudeau and his Liberals are fake resetters, mere opportunistic fellow travellers tagging along just for the ideological hell of it and with no capacity or inclination to do anything substantial to implement. In that case, the implication is that the Conservative party’s chief anti-resetter, Pierre Poilievre, was little more than an opportunistic spreader of conspiracy theories when he launched a Stop the Great Reset petition.

Some also diss the Great Reset as a high-profile political sidebar movement created by celebrity “power elites” who meet at the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos event but whose radical ideas are unlikely to survive in the real world.

But the reset movement is more than a product of some sleepy cabal of corporate and political elites, like the Bilderberg Group, the old, much-feared and secret corporate/political organization with which Klaus Schwab was involved. In contrast, the Great Reset is highly public and its advocates entrenched at the top of the world’s governments, corporations and institutions, from China to Canada and now at the top of the new government in the United States.

Through the WEF, Schwab (who described the late Canadian global governance and UN climate agenda creator Maurice Strong as his mentor) has created a power movement that appears set to reshape the global economy.

Canada’s political leaders, who already display a willingness to go along with major reset themes, do not appear to be ready to stand back and tell the reset movement — Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, economic consultants, Mark Carney, the European Central Bank, the United Nations, the IMF, the Bank of Canada — that the Great Reset is not in Canada’s or the world’s best interest.

Postscript: The Great Reset phrase and concept is not new. About a decade ago, American urbanist and University of Toronto professor Richard Florida wrote The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post- Crash Prosperity. Florida, who was writing about the need to reset the economy in the wake of the 2008 Great Recession, seems to have invented most of the jargon and approaches now used to project a post- COVID world. There’s talk of a “new normal” and great transformations to come, although a decade later — from the perspective of today’s pandemic world — much of Florida’s explorations seem quaint and outdated. The new normal, said Florida, “will be less oriented around cars, houses, and suburbs. We’ll be spending relatively less on the things that defined the old way of life. We’ll have to, if we expect to have money left over to sustain the new industries that will emerge in the Great Reset.” Hmmm.